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Sound Off! (Nov. 22)

Main Street will not bring me back to downtown. There are not enough parking spaces on Main Street and nothing has been done to change the ugly, trashy looking parking lots on Water and Church Street.

Just wanted to congratulate Robert Frank, the new president of the University of New Mexico, who is a former Trojan.

Last spring the Sun-News had several articles of people complaining about the coyote population on the East Mesa, harassing them while they were walking, wanting to spend taxpayer money to have government hunters and trappers come in and thin them out. Now all you see is protests against this hunting thing.

A tied vote is nothing new. Some years ago there was a tie between two candidates in the Radium Springs area. Your vote really does count.

What's with the Farmers Market vendor who sells big signs with profanity and obscenities, English and Spanish both? It's a family market. As a parent, I was offended and embarrassed.

New Mexicans are being threatened by Virgin Galactic. Sir Richard Branson and his executives demand that the New Mexico state Legislature pass legislation to exempt suppliers of parts from liability when passengers are killed, or Virgin Galactic will pull the plug on the spaceport.

Some New Mexico state legislators want to let space adventurers kill themselves as long as they are informed of the risks. All space activities will be increasingly endangered by space debris that can cause catastrophic damage.

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Just remember when you are killed, your family can't sue!

I see where the spaceport has awarded another contract to an outfit in Albuquerque, in fact two of them, close to half a million dollars each and here we are in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, paying the taxes. I think our politicians should do something for the people.

Congressman Steve Pearce introduced his tiny Organ Mountains National Monument on March 29, 2012. He has sat on his legislation for months and has no co-sponsors. It is time for President Obama to establish the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks Area National Monument.

How sad the Sun-News prints a headline, "Las Cruces Public School administration earns multiple state awards." The story was written by the public school PR man. The headlines should say "Disgraceful record of Las Cruces Public Schools continues."

There have been a rash of comments recently talking about "you people." The Preamble to the Constitution starts with "We the people of the United States." Let's focus on our common ground and work together for our common good. Drawing sides isn't moving us forward.

Republicans are bashing the Obama administration for the Benghazi tragedy when they cut $300 billion from embassy security. It's the same as when they blamed Obama for the unemployment after they tabled three jobs bills in Congress.

The fiscal cliff, bring it on. New Mexico and the federal government need to understand they cannot spend more money than they have. Taxing the top 2 percent will result in an additional eight days of government spending. That's not enough to even satisfy New Mexico's insatiable greed for someone else's money.

To the callers welcoming four more years of Obama. You mean by creating less than half of the jobs necessary to create to sustain our economy? To more than doubling our national debt over $16 trillion and to not passing a budget in four years, even when he had full control of Congress for two of those four?

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